Improved bed-bottom



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

JAMES H. FLETCHER, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED BED-BOTTOM.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,879, dated May 22,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. FLETCHER, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Bed-Foundation; and I do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of.which Figure l is a top View; Fig. 2, a side elevation of it. Fig. 3 is a transverse section, and Fig. @L a longitudinal section taken through its middle. Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken through one of iits cross-bars, and the springs for supporting it and the slats.

In the drawings, A denotes a rectangular frame provided with two cross-bars, B B, ar`

ranged within it. Each of such bars at its two ends extends into Inortises a a, made in the side bars, b b, of the frame. Further more, each of the said bars B B not only rests at or near its opposite ends in two springs or blocks, c c, of india-rubber placed on the bottoms of the said mortises, but is provided with a series of vertical notches, d el d, made down in it 'from its upper surface, such notches being at equal distances asunder, and for the reception of a series of spring-slats, C G G, arranged within and lengthwise of the frame A. In

every one ot the notches of each of the bars B B is a spring or block, c, of india-rubber, on which the slat placed in such notch rests.

The several slats are connected by iiexible bands D D, which extend across the frame A, are afixod to its two side bars and to each of the slats, and serve to prevent the slats from being displaced from the notches ot' the crossbars.

The bed-foundation so made is simple in construction, efcient in operation, and easy to a person while on a bed or mattress supported by it.

I claim- The said improved bed-thundation, or combination and arrangement of the frame A, with its niortises a a a a and india-rubber springs c c c c, the cross-bars B B, with their series of notches cl d d, and the series of slats C O O, with their supporting springs e e e, or the saine and the holding-bands D D, the whole being substantially in manner and for the purpose specied.

JAMES H. FLETCHER.

Witnesses:

G. H. WAsHBURN, R. H. EDDY. 

